Black College Students Placed on ‘Daily Lynching’ GroupMe Event

On Friday, someone added black students at the University of Pennsylvania to a racist GroupMe account called “Mud Men” and an associated event called “Daily Lynching.” Check out screengrabs below. [Please note that the images below feature foul language.]

Happening at #UPenn: A Facebook group called “Mud Men” was created w/ every black person from the class of 2020 and schedules to lynch them. pic.twitter.com/bzWTQcJp0A

Update – November 12, 10:31 a.m.: UPenn announced that local police have been working with the FBI and Oklahoma cops on this. According to the statement, the University of Oklahoma president reached out to say that “there is a basis for temporarily suspending one of their students as they investigate his involvement in the matter.”